Bloomsbury Summer School
Fascinated by ancient civilisations?
We offer anyone with any level of knowledge, inspiring short courses on ancient Egypt and other areas of the ancient world.
2024 Course timetable (in-person and online)
Monday 22 to Friday 26 July
ARCHAEOLOGY OF EMPIRE: EGYPT IN THE NEW KINGDOM
Course Director: Dr Robert Morkot (Friends of the Petrie Museum)
Monday 22 July
10:45 – 11:00*
Students login to Google Meet
11:00 – 11:30
BSS Director’s Welcome Address
11:30 – 13:00
1. Introduction: Empires and how we understand them
Welcome Lunch in BSS Common Room (14:00 Short optional tour of UCL with the Director)**
14:30 – 15:45
2. The Late Bronze Age World
16:15 – 17:30
3. The New Kingdom: Overview
17:30
Non-BSS event: Get together with fellow students for a drink in the Woolf and Whistle Bar on the ground floor of the Tavistock Hotel**
Tuesday 23 July
10:00 – 11:15
4. Historical Sources and Interpretation
11:45 – 13:00
5. Reunification of Egypt
14:15 – 15:30
6. Expansion 1: Thutmose I
16:00 – 17:15
7. Expansion 2: Thutmose III
17:15 – 18:30
BSS Social on Common Room balcony**
Wednesday 24 July
10:00 – 11:15
8. Maintaining Empire: Amenhotep II–Akhenaten
11:45 – 13:00
9. New Empires, New threats: Akhenaten–Ramesses II
14:15 – 15:30
10. Ruling Empire: Kush
16:00 – 17:15
11. Ruling Empire: Western Asia
17:30
Non-BSS event: Get together with fellow students for dinner at Poppadom Indian Kitchen in the Tavistock Hotel**
Thursday 25 July
10:00 – 11:15
12. Empire in Action: Trade and the economy
11:45 – 13:00
13. Egyptian Religion at the Centre and Periphery
14:15 – 15:30
14. Culture I: Influences on Egypt
16:00 – 17:15
15. Culture II: Egyptian influence in the em
Friday 26 July
10:00 – 11:15
16. Artifact Handling Session (details TBC)
11:45 – 13:00
17. Artifact Handling Session (details TBC)
14:15 – 15:45
18. The ‘End’ of the Late Bronze Age
16:00 – 17:15
19. The ‘End’ of the New Kingdom
17:15 – 18:30
End-of-Course Drinks and Online Social (you are welcome to invite guests)
*All times are London UK time; Google Meet waiting room opens 15 minutes prior to the start; **In-person participants only.
NB: Timetables, once published, are unlikely to change, but remain provisional until the first day of the course.
